Cleaning and polishing device.



PATENTBD JUNE 23, 19 03.

A. K. & W. LOVE. CLEANING AND POLISHING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 14, 1902.

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Jr mv WILLIAM LOVE UNITED STATES Patented June 23, 1903.

PATENT OEEIc LILLIAN ALIoE KENT LOVE AND WILLIAM LOVE, OF BOURNEMOUTH, ENGL ND.

CLEANING AND POLISHING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-N0. 731,583, datedJ'u ne 23,1903.

Application filed July 14, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LILLIAN ALIoE KENT LOVE and WILLIAM LovE,subjects of the King of Great Britain, and residents of Bournemouth, in the county of Hants, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cleaningand Polishing Devices, of

which the following is a specification.

drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevational view of our improved device shown independently. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof, while Fig. 3 is a perspective view of our improved device shown in position upon the hand when in use.

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts wherever occurring throughout all the figures, (1 represents a glove or palm-cov-- ering, which glove or palm-covering covers the whole of the palm of the hand when in use and entirely iucases the ends of the fingers. This palm-covering a may be suitably lined and padded with cotton-wool or other soft substance. The forward end I) of the palm side of this glove or palm-covering a is covered with or constructed of a soft suitable material and is utilized-whenin use for applying the polishing-cream or other substance to the boot or other article, while the main portion 0 of the palm-covering is covered with selvyt, chamois-leather, or other suitable polishing substance. Attached to this glove or palm-covering a on the upper side thereof a cleaning andpolishing brush d Serial No. 115,475. (No model.)

is provided, which cleaning and polishing brush is arranged in such a position that when the device is in use upon the hand the closing of the hand will bring such brush into a convenient position for use.

In orderto provide a convenient means for attaching the device to the hand, we provide elastic bands 8 and f transverselyof the glove -or palm-covering, attached to the back longitudinal edges thereof,and attached at one end to the band f and at the other end to the rear transverse edge of the back of the glove or palm-covering we provide a smaller band or loop 9 in a convenient position for the insertion of the thumb of the user.

Inoperation the forward under side I) of the palm-covering is utilized for applying the polishing substance to the article to be polished, as before mentioned. The hand is then closed, which brings the brush (Z into a convenient position for use, as shown by Fig. 3, and finally the polishing-surface c of the glove or palm-covering is utilized for finishing off.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, isf As an article of manufacture the improved cleaning and polishing device consisting in the combination with a padded palm and finger covering having a surface for applying the polishing substance, and a polishing-surface, of a brush attached upon the back there* 0f,and of means for retaining the device upon the hand,'said means comprising elastic transverse bands and a short longitudinal elastic loop substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and shown.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed ourlnames in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' LILLIAN ALICE, KENT LOVE.

WILLIAM LOVE.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR WILLIAM J or, ERKENWALD B. MOORING ALDRIDGE. 

